Card-punching device



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CARD PUNCHWG DEVICE.

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A. KNISTRUM.

CARD PUNCHING DEVICE.

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CARD PUNCHING DEVICE.

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CARD PUNCHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION man DEC. :2. 1919.

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CARD PUNCHiNG DEVICE.

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CARD PUNCHING DEVICE.

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MACHINE COMPANY, ,A SOB-PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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To alt whom it may concem:

Be it known that l, AUGUST Kms'raom, a subject of the Kin of Sweden, residing at Binghamton, in t e county of Broome and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card- Punching Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention which forms the subject of, this application for Letters Patent resides in the combination with. an ordinary printing typewriter of a punching attachment for tabulator cards, designed and adapted to be operated by the typewriter mechanism in such manner that the cards punched there,- by will by the number and position of the holes therein indicate the data and information printed by the operation of the typewriter keys. An understanding of thenature and purpose of the invention may best be derived from the following statement of a specific example of its use.

Let it be assumed that a certain customer purchases from a givensalesman, on a given date and at a given place, a list of articles of merchandise, or different lists on different dates, and that at the end of the month a bill for all purchases ismade out in the usual manner on an ordinary type writer. It may be further assumedthat the seller may at any time thereafter wish to ascertain just what articles had been sold to that particular customer, or by whom, when and where they were sold, or the total amount paid or due for any particular ar-. ticle or any other like information, but it is well known that the simplest and readiest means of gaining such information, when ever the proportions of the business are such. as to make adetailed examinatibn of the books and ledgers a laborious operation, is to tabulate the transactions and items on punched cards, to sort out all cards containing' such items as may be needed and determine from them the data or information required; for example, it may be desired to ascertain what total quantity of given articles of merchandise has been purchased by a certain party in a given time, or what was Sold by a certain salesman or any other kindred information. in which case the cards punched to Show these factsare sorted out ll'lGPllHl'llCflllY and then passed through a tabulating machine.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 15, 1921.

Application filed December 12, 1919. Serial No. 344,375.

l leretofore, it has been customary to typewrlte the b ll or bills, and then by a separate operation, record by holes punched in cards by a tabulating machine, each trans- J proper punching of tabulator cards to preserve in this form a complete record-of the transactions as shown by the printed bills or invoices. This means I have succeeded in producmg in a practical and eflicient form, and m invention consists in the combination with a typewriter of any known and usual construction of a card punching ettachment or mechanism which will be operated by the typewriter mechanism and will record by holes punched in cards whatever facts or data the typewriting machine may print. In other words, I provide means bv which the printed items such as dates, places, persons and the like will be indi cated b certain punched number holes in the car sand the printed numbers by certain other punched holes, one card being punched for each different date or other item, and all of which collectively correspond to the original printed bill, invoice or other instrument, of whatever nature it may be.

n carrying out my invention, I employ what I term a set up box, the specific construction of which will be hereinafter described in detail, but which by the manual positioning of certain parts such as slides, is used to close'breaks in circuits including the operating magnets of a plurality of punches. When the apparatus is to be used the typewriter operator after printing the arbitrary items of a bill, or the like. such as the ledger number, date, name of customer and so on, laces a sample card in the machine to assist in setting "up or closing the breaks in the printing pirruits which willcontrol the punches for the numbered holes in the appropriate columns in card to indicate all of such pri-ited arbitrary items.

The typewriter carriage is then si ilttil from the proper point to begin the rat line of the body of the bill, and while printing such line it will be advanced to a certiiin predetermined point, or if it does not reach it, it is stepped to such point, and by such movement it carries acontact which slides over a series of terminals for the punch circuits, whereby all of such circuits as have been set up or partially closed, will be" rendered active and'the punches controlled thereby will punch out the numbered holes in the columns of the card which will indicate all of the items for which the set up box has been adjusted.

After the above mentioned. point in the travel of the typewriter carriage has been reached, the nwneral keys of the instrument are depressed 0 print the figures of value in the roper columns. in the bill, and these keys will operate to punch in the card holes in correspondin columns which by their position will in icate the numerals which such keys bear.

'VVhile this operation is takin place a card has been advanced through t e punching attachment and a-new.card brought into place, whereupon the carriage is shifted back to begin and print a second or new line, and the operation above set forth is re peated for this and each succeeding line.

This specific example will serve to illustrate the general nature and purpose of the invention, but for an understanding of the mechanism which is required for carrying'out the operationsabove set forth. and which by reason of the different character of the necessary operations including spacing of the typewriter and of the punching attachment is peculiar to itself, reference must be had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate the apparatus in its entirely.

In these .drawin s:

Figure 1 is a an view of the complete machine, typewriter and punching attach ment combined.

Fig. 2 is a rear view, in elevation, of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the part. of'

the base plate 0 the apparatus upon which the typewriter rests.

Fig.4 is a side View of thesame mech anism showing the typewriter, in dotted lines, set thereon.

Fig. 5 is a front view of a part of Fig.4, showing the typewriterkey bars in section.

Fig. 6 is a. detail of a switch mechanism controlling the zero punch.

Fig. 7 1s a top plan view on an enlarged scale of the part of the punchin mechanism hereinlieforc referred to as the set up box.

Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the same parts. showing the cscupement mechanism.

Fig. 9 is a View, in side elevation, ol the mechanism inside ofthc set up box. the latter being hown in section.

Fig. 10 is a top plan view of the punch-- ing mechanism in the set up box, the box and cards being shown in section.

Fig. 11 is a rear view of the punching attac Inent showin the card carrier, the contact points which correspond to the columns of numbered holes in a card, and other parts indicated by dotted lines.

F ig. 12 is a part section and part rear view of the card magazine or holding device. Fig. 13 is a detail of the contacts, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 11 for breaking the circuit of the punch magnets while the ends of the card carrier are immediately under the same. i

Fig. 14 is apart section and part plan view of the mechanism for transferring a card from the magazine to the box or re ceptable for the punched cards.

Fig. 15 is a detail of a supplemental keyv on the keyboard for punching a hole without operating a character key.

Fig. 16 is a detail of an attachment to the typewriter for controlling the operation of the escapement for the cards, after havin been thrown out of operation by the tabula'tor stop on the card punch attachment.

Fig. 17 is a detail of the contact controlled by the numeral keys in the typewriter. 9'5

-Fi 18 is an end view of the punching attuc ment, looking from the typewriter, the base being in section.

Fig. 19 i a subtotal section of the punching attachment showing the punches in elevation.

Fig. 20 is a horizontal section of the punching attachment, showing one of the selector magnets, the punch operating magnet and the punch mechanism.

Fig. 21 is a horizontal section of the card holder or magazine and the punched card carrier.

Fig. 22 is a view of the same parts showing a card and the card carrier in a position from which the card is transferred to the card receiver box.

Fig. 23 is a detail of a portion of the plate of the set up box on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 24 is a section on the line 2424 of.

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